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Just to show the difference material makes when dyeing. All of these went into the same dye bath at the same time and they all started out white or off-white.

I used Rit non-synthetic emerald and kelly green dyes. I have no idea the composition of the yarn, I got a big bag of various untagged cakes and skeins at my local thrift store for five bucks. I'll probably re-do the lighter ones in a synthetic dye bath to see what happens.

Normally I'd unwind yarn to dye but in this case I wanted the mottled look and variance in colour for a faux-moss blanket project.

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You gonna make something with all four?

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, and about two dozen more. A big fake moss looking curtain for a tent.

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